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AMPs
Training and Education Committee has assembled a program, a
panel discussion, for the Trainee Luncheon at our 2009
Annual Meeting. The proposed theme for the day is Can you
be ONLY a molecular pathologist ... especially in these
times? The panel includes representatives of various
practice situations: academic, community hospital, and
industry. All the panel members are distinguished molecular
pathologists.>>Read the entire article

Bring Your Camera
to the AMP Meeting
Take some entertaining or interesting photos during
the Annual Meeting and enter the AMP Photo Contest.
First, second and third prize winners will receive a
gift and their photos published in the AMP
Newsletter

Photos MUST be digital and include a meeting
attendee. Submit your entry via e-mail (no more than
5MB) to Mary Williams (mwilliams@amp.org)
or snail mail to her on a CD (AMP, 9650 Rockville
Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814). Include your name,
address, a title or caption, and the names of the
individual(s) in the photo. Deadline is Tuesday,
December 22, 2009.

Recipient of 2009 AMP Award for Excellence in Molecular
Diagnostics

Dame
Kay Davies,

a British geneticist and Dr.
Lees Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University, is this
years recipient of the AMP Award for Excellence in
Molecular Diagnostics. She is director of the Medical
Research Council (UK) Functional Genetics Unit, a governor
of the Wellcome Trust and a director of the Oxford Centre
for Gene Function. She is also an Executive Editor of the
journal Human Molecular Genetics. In 2003 she was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in UK. Dr. Davies was advanced
to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
in the 2008 New Year Honours, having been a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Dr. Davies research group has an international reputation
for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In the 1980s,
she developed a test which allowed for the screening of
fetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying DMD. In
1989 she discovered that the utrophin protein has similar
properties to dystrophin and has since shown in mouse models
that up regulation of the former protein in muscle cells can
compensate for the absence of latter.